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What if during the nineteenth century, bribing US presidential electors was viewed as a standard part of presidential politics, at least as accepted, for example, as bribing US Senators?

The number of "faithless electors"over the history of the US has been remarkably low (2016 in fact set a record, unless you count 1872 where the Democratic electors were constitutionally obligated to be faithless), which indicates that this just hasn't been a problem. But what it it was?
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